Lynn S. Joy

Professor of Philosophy

Degrees

Ph.D., Harvard.

Research Profile

Lynn Joy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, teaches modern philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of science. She is the author of Gassendi the Atomist: Advocate of History in an Age of Science (1987/2002). She currently writes on Hume's metaphysics and ethics, and on relations between contemporary meta-ethical problems and the history of metaphysics. Her work-in-progress includes Making Sense of Normativity, a book on the role of natural dispositions in explaining moral norms and values, and articles such as "Hume on Natural and Moral Dispositions" and "Newtonianism without God: Hume as a Philosophical Critic."